28 Jun, 2016 @ 16:37
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Number of Britons looking to move abroad increases by 30% post-Brexit

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brexit webTHE number of UK citizens looking to move abroad after Brexit has increased by 30%.

Worldwide cost of living comparison site Expatistan said the surge happened immediately following the shock EU referendum result.

The amount of people comparing the cost of living in UK cities and cities abroad also spiked by over 50%.brexit web 2

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the site’s figures showed a positive correlation between how a city voted in the referendum and the number of people researching a move away from the UK.

The higher the percentage of Remain votes the more interest there was in moving abroad.brexit web 3

Spain was the area with the third highest interest among those looking for a new life, after the USA and Australia.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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8 Comments

  1. Interesting report. Having spoken to a number of business colleagues over the past few days, Brexit is proving to be a disaster. They’ve all had to increase prices because of the currency drop. The price of petrol and food is also due to rise sharply. Bad times ahead for the UK. Boris knows best.

  2. I can understand the interest in wanting to leave the UK, especially now post the brexit vote.
    The thing is people are going to want to want to sell their UK homes at what they was valued at before this colossal mess, not at what they are going to sell for now, if at all.

  3. Could this be the opportunity that Spain has been waiting for and help them flog off all those empty properties and give their flagging economy a boost? Will this give them the impetus to put their house in order and finally sort out their property laws and give people the confidence to buy?

  4. All this doom and gloom is a bit premature give it a year, Spain will still be a corrupt right wing controlled basket case in 2017 and Britain will still be in the EU.

  5. Confidence to purchase in Spain really depends on what the UK does over the next two years, should article 50 be invoked. The deals that the UK does with Spain on things like free movement and health care will be the critical deciding factor for many, especially those who come to live/reside in Spain. Having spoken to a number of estate agents over the past week, this is what they have told me. There is still demand from the UK, but finding an agent with more foreign buyers is now a must.

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